joe brindle

care about planet & people. words in @independent, @bigissue + mre

views very much my own

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lady in glasses, "I'd just like to say that if there should be any cold rage that is happening, it should be directed towards the politicians"

Fiona Bruce, "What, all of them?"

Lady in glasses, "No, the ones trying to sow the seeds of division between us"

"Because we're basically being manipulated by billionaires at this point"

"And it shouldn't be like that"

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Number of people asking me to comment on the Henry Nowak case. His father said "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension". If you can't respect his wishes, you're scum. That's what I think.

[Oxford Union @OxfordUnion]

A statement from the President, Arwa Elrayess:

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Piker has said some stupid and revolting things. But it doesn’t mean we should be telling British cultural organisations they can’t invite him to their events, or that the threat of Home Office prohibition becomes a routine consideration. Meanwhile Cenk is a mainstrean US commentator on the left. We need a conversation about how important freedom of assembly is as a guiding principle of an open, liberal society.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough.
https://t.co/GqUMVB5bqj

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

@hikingshawty England in May

[Mothin Ali @MothinAli]

It sure is!

[Max Jerneck @MaxJerneck]

Tapping the Tooze-sign

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

@gem_ste That's not what he's saying here

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

yes @adam_tooze and the manufacturing of silence around the Bank's actions to shrink fiscal space deliberately is astounding:

here one alarmist claim that halting gilt sales would trigger inflation!

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

If I were a populist left figure (@ZackPolanski) I'd be naming and shaming the Bank of England as our enemy.

What's more appetising than an unelected, overpaid, banker and bureaucrat who is making life more expensive for ordinary Brits?

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

"There's no reason why a state like Britain ought to be subject to the blackmail of the bond markets if the central bank plays the role it could be playing"

@adam_tooze lays the blame of Britain's bond markets fears at the feet of BoE and Andrew Bailey

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

Aligns nicely with what @DanielaGabor has been banging on about for a long time
https://t.co/ewuQn674Is

[Mothin Ali @MothinAli]

The Greens are the party of the working class. We are not here to play tag along to Starmerism with a northern accent.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Scenes like this will be played back to children, explaining to them how Israeli society became genocidal.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

Insane to me that the government can recognise social media as so harmful to an entire generation but are unwilling to take on the companies doing this

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A Government review has found employers must adapt to the "bedroom generation" of unemployed 16-24 year olds by offering more flexibility

It says they're "not snowflakes or faking it" and their anxiety and depression is linked to growing up on social media

[@thetimes]

[joe brindle @JoeBrindle_]

@serenelyjoyful @leftrestoration Tbf I have no idea how Oxbrige works I live in a very different world. but yeah something like that